A GAELIC GRAMMAR
CONTAINING
THE PARTS OF SPEECH
AND
THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PHONOLOGY
AND ETYMOLOGY
WITH
A CHAPTER ON PROPER AND PLACE NAMES

BY

GEORGE CALDER. B.D., D. LITT.,

Lecturer in Celtic, University of Glasgow.

GLASGOW

Alex. MacLaren & Sons,
360-362 Argyle Street

1923
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p. 8
“….Many of the derivations which he suggests are surprising, but, as Dr. Calder does not express hesitation on the matter, we must assume from his certainty that the surprise is due to our ignorance rather than to any far-fetched subtlety." — " Glasgow Herald."

"The name Colquhoun, whose pronunciation puzzles English people, is, so far as its derivation goes, as much of a puzzle to Scotsmen. Who would imagine it is a corrupted Gaelic equivalent of Thomson? In his Gaelic Grammar published the other day. Dr. George Calder seems to have little difficulty in proving that the MacTavishes, Holmes, MacCosh's, and MacCombies and the M'Couns of Galloway, as well as the Colquhouns and Maclehoses, are really all ' sons of Thomas.' " — " Glasgow News."
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p. 19

3. In a few proper name, mac son, projects the final c which eclipses the following consonant, and the pretonic unstressed ma of mac is dropped, e.g.